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WALKER CREEK EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 60 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 14 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About WALKER CREEK EL
Set in NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, Texas, WALKER CREEK EL is a reasonably sized K-5 school, overseen by BIRDVILLE ISD. It works with 458 students across grades pre-K through 5.
WALKER CREEK EL is one of 30 schools operated by BIRDVILLE ISD, a district that enrolls 22,267 students overall.
Looking at the student body, WALKER CREEK EL lists that the largest single group is White at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 23% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 8% Black, 5% Asian.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 26% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Tarrant County (around 63%), the school's rate is south of typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WALKER CREEK EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.6%, the actual is 60.9%, a residual of -1.7 points.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Tarrant County indicate the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Tarrant County runs 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), of which WALKER CREEK EL is one.
BIRDVILLE H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, WALKER CREEK EL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 61.1%.
Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 26%: 615 students in 2018 compared to 458 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 65% to 54% over that span.
Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the WALKER CREEK EL community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Tarrant County at a glance
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